#237: GPT-6 Astra, NYC Bans AI in Schools, Trump Goes All-In on Data Centers & Lawyers Under Pressure to Pass on AI Savings

Paul Roetzer (0:00)

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Welcome to episode 237 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I am your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are recording a little early for this episode because it is Labor Day weekend in our world. You will be listening to this after Labor Day weekend. Hopefully, you had a wonderful three-day weekend, took a little time off to swim with your family. We are recording on Friday, September 4th around 10 AM Eastern time. It has been a crazy week. I mean, it's hard to say in the AI world, I feel like every week is crazy. This one was exceptionally crazy. Lots of model releases, big model releases. Each one sort of one up to the one the day before it.

We got some bands on AI in the New York City schools. We got Trump taking on his own voter base over data centers. That's just the main topics. I don't know, Mike. I told Mike as we got on here, I'm in a weird headspace right now, I got to be honest. I'm not even sure what I'm going to say today. I usually don't know what I'm going to say, but normally, I'm pretty balanced about everything.

I'm just not sure. There's some things that I have some pretty strong feelings about at the moment, and I'm generally just very controlled about my thoughts and stuff. But yeah, I don't know. We'll see where this goes. It's a Friday and it's been a long week, and I'm not sure how I feel about some of these things. So yeah, I don't know. We're going to see where it goes, Mike. This should be interesting. All right. So this episode is brought to us by Marketing AI Month. This is a new thing we just kicked off. So AI is rapidly changing every part of marketing. There's still a major gap between knowing AI matters and knowing how to apply it in your actual work. Marketing AI Month is our effort to help close that gap by making practical AI education accessible to every marketer. So throughout September, the whole month, we are giving everyone free access to our complete five-course AI for Marketing series in AI Academy. So this series is $499 normally, comes with a certificate, and it is part of our AI Academy Mastery membership program. So if you're a Mastery member, this is one of the 22, Mike, professional certificates, I think, that are part of Academy. So the reason we're doing this is because our experience has been that marketers are often the tip of the spear leading on adoption and then communication of AI's value within an organization. So we're running an experiment here to say, okay, if we make a certificate series, which by the way is our most popular certificate series in Academy, if we make it free for a month, can we accelerate understanding and compound the value of responsible or at least the potential of responsible AI adoption within organizations? So that's like the premise here. Then it also happens to lead up to our Maicon event in October. So it seemed like this was a great way to try this. So this series gives you a step-by-step roadmap to becoming an AI forward marketer. You will learn how to find and prioritize AI use cases across your job, choose the right AI tools, build personalized roadmap for adoption, and use prompting, deep research, custom AI assistants to solve real marketing challenges. You can complete the series and earn the professional certificate. By the way, Mike is the instructor. So if you love listening to Mike, you can spend five hours with Mike on the course series. So all you got to do is go to smarterx.ai/marketing.

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